Biographies & Memoirs

First major biography to be published on Beaverbrook in over twenty-five years.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to ...

In this entertaining and surprisingly moving autobiography, Timmy shares his journey through TV stardom, cycling the Camino and his passion for art

The candid tale of one of Britain's most outstanding contemporary philanthropists.

The first full-length biography of an extraordinary woman born into slavery who, through grit and determination, became a historic social and educational leader.

The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798-1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman's journey from slavery to ...

A fierce, strikingly redemptive exploration of the impact of traumatic violence on victim, perpetrator and society.

Modern Women is a celebration of 52 influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions

This biography of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) explores the life and extraordinary imagination of one of Britain's most singular writers and artists. In the space of thirty years Peake produced more than two hundred and fifty poems, four novels (including the celebrated Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus ...

A richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott, and the first to transcend the myths that have taken root in the story of his life.

Since Scott’s death in 1912, he has been the subject of innumerable books―some declaring him a hero, others dismissing him as an irresponsible fool. But in ...

A biography of Edward Thomas but more particularly an account of the last 5 years of the poet's life, along with the cultural and literary world he inhabited with fellow travellers such as his great friend Robert Frost. Sadly it was all to come to an end on the battlefield in France.

This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is brought to life by a collaboration with the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views the artist's story through the eyes of the three women who shared his life, for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on-and-off ...

"Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework." Francoise Sagan

National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted ...

In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort’s birth. For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. ...

Can trauma be inherited? In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a family history that still haunts him. Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge ...

Thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy from Diana Athill, one of the nation's bestselling and best-loved authors, in the first collection of her letters ever to be published.

In this classic of modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness.

In 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother, who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. ...

One spring morning, in 1953, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes, everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. He describes his experience with breathtaking immediacy in ...

From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WEDLOCK, the story of two pioneering men of science, and a nation in thrall to mesmerism...